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The Darktown Revue (1931)

★ 3.4/10 18 min Comedy, Music United States English
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Description

With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Michaeux provides a record of several cabaret acts, using intertitles to separate the individual numbers. This quietly outrageous film begins with the high-toned Heywood Choir singing "Watermelon time" and concludes with Amon David playing a preacher using heavy blackface. Amon Davus was known as "the Back Biting Comedian, Par Excellence", and his sermon is one of Michaeux's many notable send-ups of the clergy.

Top Cast

Amon Davis
Amon Davis
Celeste Cole
Celeste Cole
Donald Heywood
Donald Heywood
Sara Martin
Sara Martin
Tim Moore
Tim Moore
Andrew Tribble
Andrew Tribble

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